, My research is about the self -- its cognitive, social, and neurological bases. As such, I am a Social Cognitive psychologist. I am mainly interested in the relation between self-awareness and inner speech, as well as in self recognition, Theory-of-Mind, animal consciousness, and neurophilosophy.
, Dr. Beverly McLeod is researching people's reactions, both emotionally and cognitively, to being deceived and the consequences of deception. She is interested in understanding the factors that influence these reactions and the short-term and long-term implications of deliberate deception.
, Dr. Bob Uttl received his PhD in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and will be joining the faculty at Mount Royal starting Fall 2009. He has extensive experience in study designs, measurement and statistical analyses and has been a consultant in these areas for both faculty and students at the University of British Columbia.
, Dr. Evelyn Field is a behaviourist whose research focuses on sex differences in how movement is organized. Already getting involved and interested in research as an undergrad, Dr. Field went on to earn her Masters and PhD at the University of Lethbridge and has taught in MRU's Psychology Department since 2008.
Current Projects
, Dr. Gen Thurlow came to Mount Royal in 1997 with a background in visual system and adult brain plasticity research. She has since been involved in several collaborative projects in the Department of Psychology, among them the development of an online interactive website which integrates study skill information with Introductory Psychology course content, and an experimental assessment of the effects of the site on student achievement, scholastic efficacy, and study skills attitudes.
, James Taylor has been a psychology instructor at Mount Royal since 2002. He has plans to pursue research in memory and related areas of cognitive psychology. More specifically, he hopes to examine the consequences of retrieval from memory as well as the processes involved in the retrieval from memory.
, After receiving her M.Sc. (University of Calgary) and PhD (Walden University, Minnesota) in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Judy Johnson completed a summer fellowship at the Ellis Institute of Cognitive Therapy in New York. She has been a tenured faculty member of the Department of Psychology since 1987. Her book, What's So Wrong With Being Absolutely Right: The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief has recently been released by Prometheus Books, New York. She is currently working on a sequel that examines dogmatism and political orientation.
, I am obtaining student perceptions concerning themselves as learners at the beginning and the completion of a Mount Royal course on effective learning. In addition, follow-up interviews will be conducted one major semester after the course is finished.
, Dr. Nancy Ogden's research focuses on the central aspects of development as they are observed, studied, and enhanced in real world contexts. Specifically, she is investigating the processes of learning and developments which are involved in children and adolescent growth and maturation. She has been a tenured instructor in the Psychology department at Mount Royal since 1997.
, Dr. Anthony Chaston has been an instructor in Mount Royal's Psychology Department since 2007. His area of expertise is cognitive neuroscience, specifically having to do with sensation and perception. Dr. Chaston plans to begin research this year on a project delving into time perception, specifically investigation which hemisphere of the brain perceives time. One of the interesting characteristics of the project is the study subjects-they have split brains, meaning the corpus callosum in their brain has been surgically severed, in most cases to control severe seizures.
Current Projects
